- Read more: Guardrail the Judicial Mind: Preserving the Cognitive Integrity of Judges in the Era of LLMs
This paper examines the emerging threat to judicial cognitive integrity posed by the use of Large Language Models (LLMs) as preparatory tools in judicial decision-making. Drawing on established psychological and behavioural research, it argues that judges’ interaction with LLM outputs predictably generates automation bias and cognitive offloading, subtly shaping reasoning even where judges remain formally…

